Six Strategies to Get Your Instrument Development Moving Speeding up the instrument specification process and reducing the need for extensive iterations can greatly accelerate development time. The keys are to fail early and fail on paper, eliminating expensive and time consuming hardware iterations. Download the whitepaper. http://solutions.parker.com/6steps-motion-system-ontime-and-underbudget

1. 6 Steps to Accelerate Your Design Cycle

2. What is driving the need to accelerate
machine and instrument designs?
Shorter life cycles
Need to be first to market
Limited engineering resources

3. What are the challenges presented by
outsourcing in the design phase?
Reduced Design Control
Diminished Intellectual Property
Increased Management Complexity

4. Parker’s Approach
4
Modular Outsourcing
Operates as an
extension of the
development
team
Engineers
where you are
engineering
Manufactures
where you are
manufacturing
Delivers a “plug
in” module that
is tested and
proven

5. Step 1
Develop a System
Specification
• Translate process requirements into
measurable motion attributes
• Throughput = distance, acceleration,
velocity, settling time
• Target Size = accuracy, repeatability,
flatness, straightness

6. System Specification is the
foundation of the design
A shared and living document
that is critical to QFD and Target
Costing.
Ultimately transformed into the
Acceptance Test Procedure

7. Added Value
If you don’t know your process requirements, a
proof of concept can be rapidly deployed using
standard products to create a test bed for
developing and testing process requirements

8. Step 2
Perform system analysis
• Develop analytical models of the
highest risk elements of the design
• Calculate the technology
requirements and technical
justification

9. System Analysis is the Keystone of
the design process
Design iterations that result from
failed assumptions are the
biggest driver to extended
development times.
Testing creative solutions on
paper is inexpensive and drives
innovative solutions.

10. Added Value
We have built a library of tools used to design
and analyze motion control problems. We go
back and confirm the analytics with real world
applications that improve predictive accuracy.

11. Step 3
Provide a system proposal
• A comprehensive document including
the System Specification, the System
Analysis, and other critical decision
making elements

12. The System Proposal is more than
just a quote
Serves the internal design teams
as a tool to communicate
progress with decision makers
and other stakeholders.
Becomes a revision controlled
document through the life of the
program to capture changes
and integrated into design
documentation.

13. Added Value
System Proposals may include reliability
models, manufacturing control plans, cost
control plans, technology development
roadmaps, and global sourcing plans. What do
you need to know to be confident you are
selecting the right partner?

14. Step 4
Dedicate Project Management
• Both Parker and our customer need
to have a central point of contact
who has ownership of the timelines
and the quality of deliverables

15. Project Management is more than just
a person
We require a regular cadence of
review meetings to validate action
items and facilitate decision
making.
We recommend a shared and
secure network drive where
project data can be shared and
accessed live.

16. Added Value
We have two critical milestones internal to the
main design phase:
• Preliminary Design Review – overview of the
form, fit, and function at the assembly level.
Authorizes the ordering of long lead
components
• Critical Design Review – deep review of the
details of each element. Authorizes the start
of complete manufacturing of the prototype

17. Step 5
Finalize the Acceptance Test
Procedure
• Documentation of the original
System Specification including how
each of the target values will be
measured

18. An Acceptance Test Procedure
assures total quality
Every specification has a Go –
No Go boundary. 6 Sigma style
analysis is available for critical
elements.
Results are provided with every
unit as either paper copies or
electronic files.

19. Added Value
The Acceptance Test Procedure is the foundation
of the production test plan
• For prototypes both Critical and Non Critical
characteristics are tested
• For production Non Critical tests can be
eliminated through the use of process
capability studies

20. Step 6
Support Globally
• Wherever in the world you design
or manufacturing teams live, you
need support that you can count
on.

21. Global Support is more than a
commitment
Growing your business in both
existing and emerging markets
means your team is spread
across the globe.
Parker has a footprint to match
our customer’s global needs.

22. Added Value
Parker has both engineering and
manufacturing to support electromechanical
motion control in Asia, Europe, and North
America. This provides the ability to
seamlessly work your design team on one
continent and your manufacturing team on
another.

23. Did you enjoy reading this?
Brian Handerhan
Automation Group
Parker Hannifin
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